LEED buildings

The Water + Life Museums complex in Hemet, California, has just become the first museum to break the LEED Platinum barrier. The building constructed by LA based Michael Lehrer Architects is worth $40 million and is 72,000 square feet big. Situated in the desert the building brought some challenges going from freezing in the winter to more than 100 degrees in the summer but the architects were able to keep a light footprint.

This beautiful and colorful building is the parking garage of the Santa Monica Civic Center. This building is on its way to becoming the first LEED certified parking garage in the United States.

Las Vegas has another distinction. And not one you would expect, especially on the Las Vegas strip. Las Vegas is now home to the world largest green building.

One of the oldest museums in the Mid-West was recently relocated to an elegant new LEED Gold certified structure, garnering accolades from art aficionados and sustainability advocates alike.

The UN Foundation offices are now LEED gold certified. This is a video on how it was done.

LEED like certification being rolled out in landsape industry

Many struggle with the question, what can we do? The Kirksey Carbon Copy guidebook offers 5 simple suggestions for individuals and companies so that if 20 percent of the businesses and individuals in Texas accepted this challenge, it would be the equivalent of taking 9,834,595 cars off the road and winding back the carbon clock by seven years.

The Union park development in Las Vegas has been accepted into a LEED pilot program. It should be the biggest commercial green project in the state.

TEMPE, Ariz., Aug. 30, 2007 -- The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University has garnered the highest designation for environmentally friendly design and construction from the USGBC.